TRANSFORMING LOVE (HE BECOMES YOUR LORD, PART 2).

CHAPTER 7
PART 2

He becomes your Lord

 “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord…”(2 Corinthians 4:5).\           

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JESUS CAME TO SERVE, NOT TO BE SERVED

Lordship says to God I am here to serve you God. The bible clearly tells us Jesus did “…not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28 NIV).

According to Strong’s, the Hebrew word for serve is abad and one of the definitions is to work. Jesus said, “…for the works which the Father has given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent Me” (John 5:36 KJV). “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will but the will of him who thatt me” (John 6:38 KJV).

JOHN 6;38

Jesus was fulfilled from serving God in his purpose.  “Then Jesus explained: "My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work” (John 4:34 NLT).

Jesus was not just “doing” God’s will through mere service, but he literally “became” God’s personal servant from his heart. According to Strong’s, another Hebrew word for serve is sharath and means to “minister to or become a personal servant to.”

Again, Jesus did “…not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28 KJV).  Jesus submitted to God’s will and served him wholeheartedly. Jesus confidently said, “…the ... works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me” (John 5:36 KJV).

GOD'S PERSONAL SERVANT

Jesus is telling us he was God’s personal servant while on earth. God was his King and we witnessed God’s kingship in Jesus’ life through the works he did. Jesus worked by serving God in obedience and by becoming  “…a ransom for many...” The bible boasts that Jesus “…humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8 KJV). He gave it all!!

Jesus is the ultimate example of how and why Lordship is important in the relationship with God. Every child of God is to “become” a personal servant to God through Christ. Christ is both your Savior and Lord. Jesus was God’s “beloved Son” and he was really pleased with him (Matthew 3:17).

GIVE YOUR ALL!!!!

It is God’s will that every child of his “…be conformed to the image of His Son…” (Romans 8:29 KJV). God tells his children to  “….work out your own salvation…” (Philippians 2:12 KJV).  Give it all (your whole life).

God is saying “serve” and “become” my personal servant just like Jesus did. God’s work is for you to do his will and become his personal servant by believing and trusting in Jesus who is the forerunner of obedience.  ^"Jesus answered, and said…This is the work of God: that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29 KJV). 

Jesus became a personal servant of God first and sent the Holy Spirit to help you do the SAME thing.

Jesus became God’s personal servant on earth and submitted to God’s kingship through obedience. Jesus had struggles too because he took on “the likeness of sinful flesh…,” (Romans 8:3 KJV).

Jesus took on the “likeness” of human flesh, but it did not change his holy nature. Jesus had two different natures for a while and it is the reason Jesus can “…be touched with the feeling of our infirmities...” (Hebrews 4:15 KJV). Jesus experienced temptation too just like we do, “…yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15 KJV).

HE SUFFERED IN THE BODY

“Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;…” (Hebrew 5:7-8-9 KJV). “Therefore, since Christ suffered in his flesh, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin…” (1 Peter 4:1 NIV).

Living in human flesh was challenging to Jesus too. “… He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them and knelt down and prayed, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done" (Luke 22:42-43 NIV).

JOHN 3;6

Jesus also made it clear that flesh and spirit are born of distinctly different means even if they co-exist together. Jesus was the living proof of that. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6 KJV).

Jesus had a real human body and demonstrated to mankind the power he had over sin. It wasn’t easy for Jesus, but he did it for God, as his personal, loving servant and for you, the object of his love. Aren’t you glad Jesus submitted to the kingship of God? “…And being made perfect, he became author of eternal salvation unto all them who obey him…” (Hebrew 5:7-8-9 J+KJV).

Hallelujah!! Jesus suffered through obedience out of his deep love for God and for You.

Jesus’ submission, humility, and obedience revolutionized the whole world. Jesus is now “highly exalted” with a “name which is above every name” (Philippians 2:9). In addition,“…at .the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11 KJV).

Our suffering in our struggle to overcome sin is not necessarily a negative condition. If we follow after the Spirit, Jesus said “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father”(John 14:1 KJV).  

We go through many different trials and tribulations in life that last for hours, days, weeks, months, or years and get caught up with the details of what is happening in the situation or circumstance. However, when God allows a season of suffering it usually is not about what is actually happening TO you as much as it is about what is happening IN you. God cares about your heart (1 Samuel 16:7).

WHATS IN YOUR HEART?

God wants the “…hidden man of the heart…” to be revealed through trails and test (1 Peter 3:4 KJV). God took Israel through the wilderness (trials) for forty years to humble them, test them, to see if they would keep his commandments or not, and to “….know what was in [their]…heart…” (Deuteronomy 8:2 KJV). 

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